About This Artwork

Federico Zuccaro (?)
Italian, 1540/41-1609

Angel Holding a Trumpet, 1576/1579

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, with additions of graphite, on ivory laid paper, pieced and laid down on ivory laid paper
196 x 137 mm (max.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf, 1968.679

McCullagh & Giles 339

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 39, no. 1G4, as follower of Luca Cambiaso.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings Before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 261, no. 339 (ill.).

Ownership History

Emilio Negro, Genoa [according to Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Galerie Meissner, Zürich [according to Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. James Alsdorf, Winnetka, Ill., to the Art Institute, 1968.